Recipe: Stovetop Popcorn!
So this is a pretty basic one, but I didn’t learn how to do this until I was an adult! I grew up with a lot of “convenience” type of cooking, including bagged microwave popcorn. It wasn’t until I started noticing the wide variety of popping corn at my neighborhood farmers market - and I moved into a cute vintage apartment that didn’t have a microwave - that I decided I needed to learn how to make popcorn on the stove. And it’s amazingly easy, so I’ve never looked back.
When I sat down to draw this one, I thought it could be a pretty simple diagram like the pesto recipe. But the more I puzzled through the process, the more I realized it needed to be more detailed, with step by step panels. For a recipe comic to really be helpful, I usually feel like every distinct action should have its own panel depicting it. Maybe someday I should sit down and write out my theories for what makes a comics recipe work. ^_^
Anyway! I just picked up some new interesting popcorn (a baby rice “hull-less” variety) at the Madison farmers market when I was there for the Wisconsin book festival, and I’m excited to see how it compares to what I’ve been buying at the Logan Square market!
Shameless Self-Promotion:
If you feel like getting a jump on holiday shopping - or even just a silly goose shirt for your own self - Threadless is currently having a 20% off everything sale!
The Only Upcoming Thing:
December 6: I’ll be speaking on a few panels and selling books and prints at Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago!
What I’m into lately:
I’m currently tearing through Rachel Harrison’s new book Play Nice. I have really loved her other books (Black Sheep and The Return are particular favorites) and I’m always down for a possession or haunted house story (and this seems to be both!). I am, I think, a generation older than Harrison’s usual protagonists, and they can sometimes come off as a little shallow and silly to me at first? But she’s always got such a strong undercurrent of deep emotional pathos in her stories that I get drawn in regardless.
What Toki’s into lately:
So I ordered some yarn, because it’s crocheting season now. I made the mistake of leaving the delivery box out for longer than 30 seconds, and Toki claimed it as his nest. Which means the box will be left out for at least a week, until he tires of it.
